Honorific Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Lady Forres | |
Birth Name: | Agnes Freda Herschell |
Birth Date: | 9 October 1881 |
Birth Place: | Weybridge, Surrey |
Death Place: | Green Park, London |
Nationality: | British |
Known For: | Sculpture |
Agnes Freda Forres, Baroness Forres (Herschell; 9 October 1881 – 5 May 1942) was a British artist known for her sculpture work in bronze and plaster.
Forres was born in Weybridge in Surrey.[1] She was the daughter of Lord Herschell, the British Solicitor-General and later Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, and appears to have been educated abroad.[2] In 1912 she married Sir Archibald Williamson, a politician and businessman who became Lord Forres.[2] During the 1920s Agnes Forres spent three years in the studio of the sculptor Charles Sargeant Jagger, first as a pupil and then as a studio assistant.[2] In 1926 Forres exhibited a bronze bust portrait at the Salon des Artistes Francais in Paris and showed a plaster work there the following year.[3] Between 1926 and 1938 Forres exhibited five works at the Royal Academy in London.[2] [1]
In 1930 Forres commissioned a relief sculpture, The Mocking Birds, from Jagger for her home in London and helped to organise his memorial exhibition in 1935.[2] During World War II, Forres worked on a number of relief committees but died in May 1942 when she fell under a train at Green Park tube station in central London.[2]